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Dubz - think i should have added more context. When climate change is attributed as the sole cause - the other causes and solutions (not related to energy/climate policy) at the table are discarded.
What's the science behind it? We are only a couple of inches away from our wettest year on record.Yeah those stupid sentient lightning strikes, in areas seeing previously unknown levels of drought, with the lowest recorded levels of snowpack, year after year after year…
Like @publichunter1 pointing out the all time high temps, you are using anomalies to try and disprove the norms. Your time would be better served studying the change in the norms if you somehow ever find yourself ever wondering what is actually happening.
What's the science behind it? We are only a couple of inches away from our wettest year on record.
There's the same amount of water on earth every year. Whether it's snow in the mountains, or rain in a rainforest. Clearly there's been a dry spell over there. It doesn't mean it's not flooding somewhere else. (The Mississippi was just busting at the seams in MN.)
Yes, we realize that it is convenient and easy to blame every weather event on climate change.Today I learned the amount of water on earth dictates climate change.
Very scientific.
You do realize climate change also causes flooding and other weather related events right? Not just drought which you seem fixated on?
Yes, we realize that it is convenient and easy to blame every weather event on climate change.
I know that all the whining in the world isn't going to change a damn thing. Climate change is real, as are people use it for likes on silly posts
You concluded the post by blaming it all on climate change... that's the disconnect if you were wondering.I don’t know how a world heritage site, one in the mountains which I assume everyone on this site enjoys, and many have visited, getting destroyed is a silly post. I’ve seen multiple other threads about wildfires on here.
I don’t really get the whining shot either, I do multiple things in my everyday life to try and do my part to not contribute to it.
Sweeping over generalization. Maybe rather note that only two of those records were set after 2000, or the percentage that were set during the 1930s (dust bowl). The overall high temp map done similarly will show only three all time highs for any day/month happen after 2000. Disparately large numbers in the decade of the 1930s.Not saying that this data isn't true, or saying that what you re stating is incorrect. There's always gonna be fluctuations in temperature caused by a myriad of things. But a better measurement would be sustained high temps, and changes in temp averages, rather than high temp records. Also interesting that all these high temps, for every state pictured, are after the second Industrial Revolution, when we started using gas as a fuel resource. Climate records do date back prior to this.
Sweeping over generalization. Maybe rather note that only two of those records were set after 2000, or the percentage that were set during the 1930s (dust bowl). The overall high temp map done similarly will show only three all time highs for any day/month happen after 2000. Disparately large numbers in the decade of the 1930s.
Yes, the climate is changing, and we are part of it. But there are so many cycles superimposed upon one another, and so many other influences than just CO2 (Industrial Revolution) that just what impact we are having is not measurable today. Wait till you see what the influence of wind farms and solar panel farms will be on local weather and overall climate.
We want to fix the problem. But we are so fixated on there being a fixable problem that we aren't stepping back, taking a breath, and understanding just what is going on. All those flames fanned by Fox, CNN, NBC, ABC etc etc etc.
Do you all you folks selectively picking one weather measurement from one point in time know that climate is NOT the same as weather?
Well this is old news, but climate change has made the pine beetle problem WORSE.I hear you, but in my OP, I did say the standing deadwood caused by pine beetles was a factor as well. I just believe the main factor for the rise in number and severity of wildfire is climate change.
Climate change impacts are variable. It's clear its getting warmer and getting warmer faster than ever before. But is it getting warmer and wetter or warmer and drier? That varies across the continent. Not sure everywhere has a clear trend yet either.What's the science behind it? We are only a couple of inches away from our wettest year on record.
There's the same amount of water on earth every year. Whether it's snow in the mountains, or rain in a rainforest. Clearly there's been a dry spell over there. It doesn't mean it's not flooding somewhere else. (The Mississippi was just busting at the seams in MN.)
My great grand father told about a fire that burned almost everything between Powder River and Tongue River. That being said, I do think that fires of the last 25 years have been bigger and burn more intensely. There are many reasons for this other than climate change. My experience is with SE Montana, but it is likely these reasons apply to other places too.
Big fires have always been. Just seams more significant since its now. Sucks to see nonetheless.